Church smothered nun's skills

Nuns crossing Ponte Sant'Angelo

Sister Damian. She was wonderful. Taught singing and choral skills at Blessed Sacrament grade school. She made me feel talented and showed that hard work was as much an instrument as God-given talent, and you had to be disciplined to develop your voice to its highest potential. I loved her, and I love singing. She was a jewel. At a later reunion one nun told us she left the convent, because she was too talented to stay.

Be kind, be good and fate will return the favor.

Charity recycling

I believe in Karma. You can call it fate, but that implies predestination, where Karma involves choices. You will be given choices over and over until you conquer the life lesson involved in each. If one continues to make the wrong choices, you will come back and be presented with the same choices until you get it right. I do not this is a contradiction of a basic belief in faith, as I really think that God, or Buddha, or Yahweh or Mohammed or whatever Deity you believe in follows each in its own way, Karmic principles. They all believe in the same basic tenets, do good, love your neighbor, and avoid unkindness to all living creatures. Should you not, you return and go through the same testing until you evolve to your highest good, and then when you do, you may come back to act as a model, ala Sr Theresa, or a warning, ie Hitler, to show others the way. Then Nirvana, or Heaven or any version of reward will be achieved.

And the windbag on the right is....pick one

Rush Limbaugh - Caricature

Republicans. No, seriously...snakes, spiders, the recent fascination with hurling and bathroom jokes in media (disgusting), anything dead, all kinds of slime, Ann Coulter's eyes and brain?, serial killers, child molesters, the Taliban, religious fanatics. There may be more, but that is a good starter list.